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Good Attributes Of A BOV?
For me, I don't believe driving around in a camo truck will be a great daily driver, I believe the secret into bugging out is remaining low key...
SEMA 2012: Day 4 Truck of the Day
This story is about the Survivor Truck, but that’s survivor as in surviving nuclear, biological, chemical or any other sort of warfare, or even famine and pestilence, for that matter.
The Western Pit: Homestead Vehicle Lift (for underbody work)
Homesteading, self-reliance and survival may depend on the maintenance of your vehicle. Although it is hard to be a backyard mechanic on today’s newer, computerized vehicles you can still do a lot of basic maintenance and occasional cobbling...
How to Jump Start a Car
Visual guide to jump starting a car...
The Importance of a Car Tire Change Kit
Preparedness doesn’t have to just involve zombies, terrorism, and alien invasions – you may just break down on the side of the road. Are you prepared?
Maintaining Your Car
Below we take you through some of the rudimentary things you should be doing to ensure your car stays in tip top shape...
TEOTWAKI x (MAIB + KISS) = BOB
[BOB = Bug Out Boat] When in danger, when in doubt, Hoist your sails and BUGger OUT!
Keeping Your BOV Ready TO Roll
[Forum Thread] There are several ways to keep up with what needs doing, when it needs to be done,and what will be needed to do it...
‘HALF ROBOT, HALF CAR’: CONCEPT VEHICLE COULD LINK WITH OTHERS WHILE DRIVING TO RECHARGE
The “EO Smart Connecting Car,” designed by the Robotics Innovation Center at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and is so flexible it can turn its wheels in a perpendicular fashion to allow it to travel side-to-side. In the future, it will even lengthen to allow for more passengers...
Teardrop Trailer Project
These small trailers may be just the ticket for an evacuation shelter...
Vehicle Maintenance Advice
As an auto technician and PREPPER, I would like to share some of my expertise in the automotive field. I have been “turning wrenches” for over 25 years, and have amassed quite a bit of knowledge...
Bicycles
For civil unrest, roadblocks and protestors I’d avoid those situations like the plague and wouldn’t drive across one with a bike if I could help it, but for short distance transportation they are pretty practical...
Van vs. Truck for Bugging Out
As always the answer lies in between the two extremes, that place of common sense that survivalists so often miss.
Spokes for Survival - The Bug Out Bike
If bad things happen and travel by motorized vehicle is not your best option, a bug out bike may be the alternative means of transportation that will get you moving fast without having to worry about buying fuel...
Living Off the Grid: Boat Travel
Living off the Grid has it’s trials and tribulations. One such tribulation is boat travel, especially in the winter were you are at the mercy of the every changing weather...
Video: Bug Out Vehicle Basics
For those preppers who feel there will be a high likelihood of danger in their home front region, and plan to leave for a retreat location at the first sign of trouble, a well equipped bug-out vehicle is a must. We can't all live within walking distance of safe haven wilderness or back-country, so the next best option is to choose and enhance a vehicle that is certain to get you there in one piece. Here is a great video series that will teach you how to do just that...
Vehicle Mods for SHTF
I received this from Anonymous: ”Hey don’t see much on vehicle modifications for survival in case you have to move and live with your vehicle. I added a cargo rack and trunk vault to my SUV. The rack gives me more room to store stuff and use bungees to hold down. The vault lets me store weapons and rounds safely.”
Even More On: Driving: Post-TEOTWAWKI
However, assuming unhindered travels will allow rolling stores of survival gear to pass through any measurable distance unchallenged, is a dangerous assumption. The writer cites experience traveling in a military convoy with hardened, well armed vehicles. But for realistic, civilian style convoys, the dangers are multiplied by lack of experienced scout personnel and soft equipment.
More On: Driving: Post-TEOTWAWKI
Waiting months after TEOTWAWKI to drive to your retreat is more than foolish, it is suicidal. Anyone driving post-event without an armored vehicle (or with one, just look at the ambush scenes from "Patriots") will take casualties. Every day in Afghanistan uneducated people with limited training successfully ambush and kill highly trained military personnel driving heavily armed and armored vehicles.
Driving: Post TEOTWAWKI
The TEOTWAWKI has occurred and you have made the decision to G.O.O.D. and head to your retreat location. The electricity is out, but your vehicles still work. You've stayed in your house for the last few months, kept a low profile, and have been able to avoid the initial chaos and Golden Horde of people leaving the cities. Ideally, your suburban neighbors and relatives are somewhat prepared and you have banded together for protection and mutual sharing of resources. Your retreat location is big enough for your family plus three other families. How do you safely drive everyone to the retreat location?
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